“Every living thing has a physical boundary that separates it from its external environment. Beginning with the bacteria and the simple cell and ending with man, every organism has a detectable limit which marks where it begins and ends. A short distance up the phylogenetic scale, however, another, non-physical boundary appears that exists outside the physical one. This new boundary is harder to delimit than the first but is just as real. We call this the ‘organisms’ territory.’ ...In man, it becomes highly elaborated, as week as being very greatly differentiated from culture to culture...
Since none of of us is taught to look at space as isolated from other associations, feelings cued by the handling of space are often attributed to something else. In growing up people learn literally thousands of spatial cues, all of which have their own meaning in their own contacts.”
From Edward T. Hall’s “The Silent Language”, pgs. 164-165
